Breakfast Topic: Dustwallow, the new STV
by Amanda Rivera 
Nov 10th 2007 at 8:01AM
When I got a chance to hop on in to the PTR and try the new marsh on for size, I was delighted. Once again, I feel like I have been given a zone back. Not only will we finally get a chance to continue quest lines that have dropped by the wayside, there are entire new ones that absolutely rock. I won't tell you much, but there's a certain large fish, and some cannons, and suddenly Nat Pagle is asking you to do completely wrong things with fish bait.
Dustwallow is no longer "that zone I travel through on my way to the Barrens." It only makes sense that the place will be flooded with people trying to get their quests done. I personally don't play on a PvP server, unless you count that belf mage I made on a whim, but I imagine that the craziness in the next couple of weeks will eventually die down as people speed through the levels toward 60. Or perhaps the marsh will become everyone's favorite contested zone. Either way, bring extra socks. That's what they always say when you're preparing for battle in the swamps.
Filed under: Patches, PvP, Quests, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Suzaku Nov 10th 2007 8:57AM
To be fair, aren't about 75% of the new quests for the Alliance only? I'm not sure how long Horde players will be spending there, so I don't know if it'll become the gankfest that STV is, which has plenty of quests to last both factions some 20 levels.
Aslonda Nov 10th 2007 9:20AM
Along with Suzaku, how much questing is there per faction of horde/alliance? Is it a big hub for both?
KCV Nov 10th 2007 9:28AM
@1 Even if most of the quests are alliance only majority of lol-PVP done in STV is by 70s vs 30s. With a horde FP there in the middle I am sure bored horde will go there to corpse camp lowbies.
theremover Nov 10th 2007 9:30AM
Nagrand was the new STV. Many parallels and the ganking was nuts for a long time once everyone started hitting the levels. But yes, it might get a little sticky.
Nati Nov 10th 2007 10:32AM
Speaking of Nagrand, the true gankers there are the Garadar Wolfriders. Faster than epic mounts, travel in packs, hit for 1500 per hit, patrol far far away from Garadar... yeeeah, they are probably responsible for many, many deaths. :)
Green Armadillo Nov 10th 2007 2:06PM
Beyond the usual comments that Blizzard's PVP rule-set could more accurately be called "ganking-enabled" so it's pointless to complain about being ganked on PVP servers, a new quest hub can only help. If high level characters do corpse camp the new quest hubs, that means they're not camping the old ones. Places like Desolace, and perhaps even STV, are going to be wide open, the quests award more exp, and players need less total exp to level so they're not going to suffer too much for avoiding the most popular of the new content. The only real downside to skipping the new Dustwallow stuff is that some of the quest reward gear is relatively nice for the level (e.g. a soloable quest for a spell damage offhand), but if it's not safe to quest there then it's not safe.
Anteia Nov 10th 2007 3:34PM
The quests in Dustwallow are also really worth it to go back and do as a 70 if you don't have any lower level characters to do them with. My friend and I mostly went to the PTR because I was too impatient to find out what happened in those questlines, and I wanted to experience it myself with spoilers. The quests pay well-really well for a 70 considering it takes you five seconds to do it. If you've done all the quests in outlands, go ahead and go on to Theramore and do the quests there. Some of the quests yield a gold or more each (not much compared to outlands, granted, but quests that involved going through all of Strat yielded me something pathetic like 66 silver when I did them at top level with a friend.) and really are just fun to experience. Also, if you never gave darn Jarl his blade, there's another fun quest located there, and he no longer wants the ridiculous blacksmith required and too expensive blade. He wants a sword off a mob in the area, which is so much more reasonable. :)
WeirdoKitty Nov 14th 2007 5:35PM
Dustwallow has an added bit of PvP gankness on the Alliance side for non-PvP relms. The last step of the Missing Diplomat questline has Lady Proudmore and her entourage show up to collect the soldier you fight, and she flags you for PvP, you know, for free. No need to thank her, it's on the house.
Talk to her quick so you can finish the quest and make preperations for getting knocked off by any passing Horde checking out the new content.